At 12:04 PM 9/2/98 PDT, you wrote:
if an author is proud of his book, he won't trash
the manuscripts.
Not necessarily. He may have hundreds of the printed copy, and not think
that the original manuscript, on an 8-bit Atari floppy, for example, is
worth keeping around.
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